Has Your Windows 7 Install Been A Miserable Experience?
There has been a lot of frustrated twitter chatter about the install experience for Windows 7, so it seemed like a good idea to ask — how has your install been going?
Feel free to elaborate/vent about your experience in the comments.
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Just do a clean install…
Yep clean istall ftw. I was having issues rebuilding my win7 boot files on one PC (my bad for playing with them), and had win7 RC1 on a XPS laptop. I did a fresh install on both machines, only took around 30 minutes to get them both working with all drivers and apps taken care of and I was back to watching movies on one screen while playing X3 on the other. I haven’t had a single glitch with the new win7 installer, much nicer than the old blue block installer.
I’ve installed both the 32bit and 64bit on a number of different PC’s ranging from old to latest, I haven’t had any serious problems.
Actually my biggest problem with my windows 7 install has been with OSX! Stupid Mac OS couldn’t (wouldn’t) resize my windows partition to anything larger then 10 GB. Had to back up everything, format and restore (oh and don’t try using GParted with Bootcamp, Bad things will result…….).
Ps. Disk Uitility can’t restore bootcamp partitions either……… Fuck you OSX, i’m now using Windows only……
4 clean installs so far and only one minor driver issue. But that was Lenovo’s fault.
Installed win 7 Pro last weekend. installer went fine and all programs were working except antivirus software.
One bad thing was, I had 1 TB drive connected to my system with all photos. Installer currupted the partition table of HDD. 1 TB hdd started showing 32 mb. got it fixed through linux tho’.
Couldn’t get Live Mail to work. Very frustrating. In the end installed Thunderbird.
Big probs…. I bought the student download and wanted to upgrade from vista32bit to win7 64, but instead of giving you a ISO they give you a crappy eexe that simply cannot open on a 32bit OS.
I had the same problem too. Check out this site for help: (worked brilliantly for me) install win 7 once, then upgrade over it again and it works as an upgrade.
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009/10/22/how-to-make-a-dvd-of-that-student-only-windows-7/